College Hill Music Studio

College Hill Music Studio CHMS is an audiation based piano studio in Wichita’s College Hill Neighborhood. Utilizing Edwin Go It is active, lively, collaborative and exciting.

I am excited to offer a new approach to music lessons for my students! I have been teaching for years, and have noted the sheer amount of time it takes for students to learn to read music well, and many who have been classically trained to read music struggle to play by ear. It often appears there are two different worlds: Those who “play by ear” and those who “read music.” I have been looking for a method to merge these two worlds more systematically, and have found the best approach in Music Moves for Piano. My students love the Music Moves for Piano curriculum by Marilyn Lowe! It is a very unique, nontraditional method that teaches music as an Aural (listening) art first. Reading notation is delayed for a while as we lay down a strong foundation for understanding, hearing, and making music. In the Music Moves approach, we sing songs and tonal patterns; we feel and move to the pulse and meter; and chant rhythm patterns. Reading music notation comes much easier after these elements are internalized. I believe this foundation will help to develop very strong, versatile musicians. Music Moves for Piano is based on Edwin E. Gordon’s theories of audiation. It draws from the techniques and theories of Orff, Suzuki, Jaques-Dalcroze, Kodaly, and Taubman. Music Moves lessons will give the student the tools they need to create, improvise, play, read, and enjoy music for a lifetime.

Making Music is one of the greatest joys in life! Learn its language, explore its colors, feel its rhythm, make it your ...
01/02/2024

Making Music is one of the greatest joys in life! Learn its language, explore its colors, feel its rhythm, make it your own. Create, improvise, play, read, and enjoy music for a lifetime!
www.collegehillmusicstudio.com

A great overview of our teaching approach! Thank you Felicity!
09/27/2023

A great overview of our teaching approach! Thank you Felicity!

Information Video for Parents and CaregiversWritten and spoken by Felicity BreenSuggested Websites:Lowe, M., Music Moves for Piano website https://www.musicm...

04/28/2023
Molly Ban - Mixolydian tonality (mode)
02/05/2023

Molly Ban - Mixolydian tonality (mode)

The Chieftains & Alison Krauss - Molly Ban

This song is in Lydian tonality.
02/05/2023

This song is in Lydian tonality.

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupGrieg: Peer Gynt, Op. 23 - Dance of the mountain king's daughter · San Francisco Symphony · San Francisco Symphon...

Just as we learn to identify colors by making comparisons, our tonal audiation (i.e., inner hearing and understanding of...
02/05/2023

Just as we learn to identify colors by making comparisons, our tonal audiation (i.e., inner hearing and understanding of musical syntax) is greatly enhanced when we are exposed to a variety of tonalities (traditionally referred to as “modes”). If we only hear and sing in major tonality, we won’t have as rich an understanding of what “major” truly is as we would if we heard many other tonalities with which to compare it.
Although most traditional music theory textbooks define tonalities/modes simply as the white keys on the piano between any two octaves (e.g. Dorian is the white keys from D to D on the piano), tonalities/modes are more about the relationship of pitches around the tonal center. “Heather Shouldice – Everyday Musicality”

“Making comparisons, knowing what something is not helps us to know what it is…. Imagine a whole world in which everythi...
02/05/2023

“Making comparisons, knowing what something is not helps us to know what it is…. Imagine a whole world in which everything were purple: purple sky, purple water, purple grass and trees, purple food, everything. anything purple? Would we even coin the word ‘purple’? No, we wouldn’t need it. But imagine, in all that purple, you came across a single yellow flower…. All of a sudden, yellow and purple have meaning. What is purple? Everything that isn’t yellow. And now imagine a multicolored world in which our understanding of purple is dramatically more precise because we now have so much more to compare it with.”
– ERIC BLUESTINE IN THE WAYS CHILDREN LEARN MUSIC (P. 69)

"All human beings are born with the potential to be musical, and our lives are enriched through musical engagement. We m...
01/21/2023

"All human beings are born with the potential to be musical, and our lives are enriched through musical engagement. We may not all end up professional musicians, but we can all enjoy engaging with and making music in our daily lives. The purpose of this website is to contribute to the conversation about music learning, music teaching, and music education research and to apply
these ideas in practical ways, with the goal of helping people to have more positive and fulfilling musical experiences in their day-to-day lives."

Heather Nelson Shouldice, PhD

Music for everyone, every day.

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